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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Willesden 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table No. 2.
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
Taken at the Hospital, Dog Lane, Neasden. Readings at 9.0 a.m. daily.*
Altitude of ground at Meteorological Station, 97 64 O.D. Altitude of Rim of Rain Gauge, 102 36 O.D.
1910.
| Year 1910. | TEMPERATURE shewn in degrees Fahrenheit | Mean degree of Humidity. | Rainfall in inches. | N umber of days on which Rain was measured. | Number of Hours of bright Sunshine. | Sunshine recorded at Greenwich. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| of the Air. | of the Earth at a depth of 4 feet. | |||||||||||
| Highest. | Lowest. | Range in Month. | Mean of alt Highest. | Mean of all Lowest. | ||||||||
| Mai. | Min. | |||||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (5) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | 12 | (13) |
| January | 56.50 | 17.00 | 39.50 | 44.85 | 33.98 | 45.50 | 44.00 | 88° | 1.74 | 16 | 58.2 | 53.6 |
| February | 55.00 | 24.00 | 31.00 | 47.63 | 35.47 | 43.75 | 43.00 | 86° | 2.55 | 19 | 72.5 | 69.9 |
| March | 56.75 | 24.50 | 32.25 | 50.89 | 34.86 | 44.25 | 43.75 | 81° | 1.05 | 9 | 139.7 | 149.5 |
| April | 64.50 | 23.00 | 41.50 | 54.37 | 38.54 | 46.00 | 44.25 | 79° | 1.19 | 13 | 116.0 | 129.8 |
| May | 77.50 | 26.50 | 51.00 | 62.73 | 44.81 | 49.00 | 46.00 | 78° | 2.03 | 18 | 221.9 | 219.4 |
| June | 80.75 | 40.50 | 40.25 | 69.44 | 51.34 | 53.75 | 49.00 | 75° | 2.83 | 11 | 185.8 | 184.8 |
| July | 73.75 | 45.00 | 28.75 | 65.97 | 52.14 | 54.00 | 53.75 | 78° | 2.64 | 15 | 117.8 | 112.9 |
| August | 74.50 | 44.00 | 30.50 | 68.94 | 52.61 | 55.50 | 54.00 | 78° | 2.28 | 17 | 155.8 | 177.0 |
| September | 74.75 | 34.75 | 40.00 | 64.32 | 48.03 | 55.75 | 54.75 | 77° | 0.41 | 9 | 137.1 | 142.3 |
| October | 71.50 | 35.00 | 36.50 | 59.50 | 47.67 | 54.50 | 53.50 | 85° | 2.02 | 16 | 55.0 | 70.0 |
| November | 56.00 | 19.00 | 37.00 | 45.27 | 29.25 | 53.25 | 48.75 | 85° | 2.52 | 14 | 62.5 | 50.3 |
| December | 55.00 | 25.50 | 29.50 | 47.83 | 38.90 | 48.75 | 47.00 | 88° | 3.77 | 23 | 16.8 | 19.8 |
| Means | 66.37 | 29.90 | 36.48 | 56.81 | 42.30 | 50.33 | 48.48 | 81° | 25.03 | 173 | 1339.1 | 1379.3 |
| Mean of last 8 years 1902-09 | 74.15 | 17.74 | 39.3 | 56.4 | 40.4 | 51.15 | 48.69 | 79° | Total 25.12 | Total 140 | Total | Total |
* Headings taken at 10 a.m. prior to October 19th.